Horse, distortion, Tamron 24-70 and photoshop CS5

[MiFleur]

This picture was was taken with my Tamron 24-70 lens, and my nikon D600.
I think it looks a little bit distorted, does it? or is it just the angle I took the pictures?

When I was using my 18-200 lens on my D90, there was a plug-in in camera raw that was making the lens adjustments automatically.


Because my lens and camera were put on the market after the CS6 version of photoshop was released, I have to use the DNG converter to work on my raw files (I use CS5) and I do not seem to be able to find online the lens correction data for my Tamron lens for the CS5 version.

Does anybody know if there is a way to update my camera raw 6.5 to include the lens correction of my tamron 24-70 lens?

I do not have ligthroom, my softwares are supplied by the company I work for!

Anyways, comments and suggestion will be appreciated.


130108_7174 Blue Eyed Horse by MiFleur, Back to normal, on Flickr

 

[Tony S]

"horse walks into a a bar and the barkeeper says why the long face"...

I'm not so sure what you are seeing is lens distortion as much as it is the perspective of the long face in front of the eyes and the lens tilted ( use the trees in the background to level the image)..

 

[KmH]

Adobe stopped support of CS 5/ACR 6/Bridge 4 (Photoshop 12), with the release of CS 6/ACR 7/Bridge 5 (Photoshop 13).

I think ACR 6.7 was the last update, which is still available.

Camera Raw plug-in | Supported cameras
Note on the Nikon D600: There was preliminary support for Nikon D600 in Camera Raw 7.2 and Lightroom 4.2. In Camera Raw 7.3 and Lightroom 4.3, this camera is fully supported.

The CS 6/Lightroom 4 Preferences can be set to automatically update when updates are available.

 

[Rick50]

I hope you like the Tamron 24-70. I use it on my Canon 5D III and just love it.

 

[MiFleur]

"horse walks into a a bar and the barkeeper says why the long face"...

I'm not so sure what you are seeing is lens distortion as much as it is the perspective of the long face in front of the eyes and the lens tilted ( use the trees in the background to level the image)..

I was not sure if it was distortion, but yes it might just be that the lens was tilted, thanks for the level, looking at it, it is not so good right now.

May be the horse had one too many!

 

[MiFleur]

I hope you like the Tamron 24-70. I use it on my Canon 5D III and just love it.

I am more used to doing close-up, product photography and unmoving things, with this lens, I am entering the world of people and animal photography and find that I have a lot to learn, sometimes the images look weird, probably as Tony mentions, that my lens is tilted. I will watch for this.

But this lens is sharp and I like the VR on it. It happens to stay on my camera a lot.

 

[MiFleur]

Thanks Keith
I was aware of that, but will have to wait till the company upgrades to a new version, usually they skip one out of every two!
I guess I will live with my inconvenience and focus on improving my photography techniques!.

 

[invisible]

The only sign of distortion that I can see might not be distorted at all. I'm referring to what seems to be a corral to the left of the image. If that's indeed distorted, the distortion is minimal.

 

[CynthiaM]

A photo of a horse from head-on isn't always flattering - that big ol' nose sticks out, and then the shoulders appear too small... the only way (to me, and I've owned, bred, trained and showed horses for years) is when they're working with a face on the vertical, that's the only way to really assure no distortion from the front.

He's a cutie patootie though....

 

[o hey tyler]

You mean, dis-horse-tion?